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Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the violent and arbitrarily arrest of a man being investigated by officers from the Excise Department on sus...
We reproduce below the email reply from Ms. Dilruskshi Handunnetti, the Sunday leader journalist who made several allegations against the AHRC in her article entitled ‘Targeting CBK and LTTER...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement by the Rt. Revd. Duleep de Chickera, Bishop of Colombo. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ...
the Sunday Leader issueThe Editor Sunday Leader Newspaper Leader Publications (Pvt) Ltd. 98, Ward Place, Colombo 7 Sri LankaFax : +94-75-365891 – email : editor@thesundayleader.lk Dear Sir, T...
The following was initially delivered as a talk given by Mr. John J. Clancey, Chairperson of the Asian Human Rights Commission to the priests of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong on January 4, 2007 Wh...
The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to forward by way of this statement, a report sent to President Rajapaksa by the Bishop of Mannar on the killing of innocent civilians in an aerial bombardment...
[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Cambodian aut...
(Sunday Leader December 31, 2006) I am writing this to clarify misinformation contained in an article entitled ‘Targeting CBK and LTTE’s southern gift’, by Dilrukshi Handunnetti, whi...
AS-321-2006 December 29, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: New Year’s Wish List for 2007 1. That fundamental rights guaranteed in the Constitution be fully honour...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a 17-year-old student of the Rahula National School was brutally assaulted by a school health and physical training teache...
In a feature entitled Review Essay – Targeting the NGO sector, The Island December 22, 2006, I found the following reference. “The Chairman of the seminar was a lawyer who I knew as a memb...
Your Excellency, On 18 December 2002, the UN General Assembly finally voted, by an overwhelming majority, the adoption of the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture and Oth...
Koichiro Matsuura Director-General United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation 7, place de Fontenoy 75352 Paris 07 SP France Fax: +33 (0)1 45 67 16 90 E-mail: bpi@unesco.or...
A newspaper item appeared yesterday in the Daily Mirror (December 21, 2006) reporting that a press release from your office stated: “…that the Human Rights Organization based in Hong Kong,...
The newspapers reported a request by the Judicial Service Association (JSA) to “implement the death penalty to halt the loss of public confidence in the judiciary.” This, according to th...
(Hong Kong, December 21, 2006) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) announces the release of its Human Rights Report for 2006 (345 pages), entitled “The State of Human .” The report i...
We refer your our earlier statement ‘SRI LANKA: Do newspapers like the Sunday Times, Daily Mirror and Lankadeepa contribute to the prevalence of endemic torture in Sri Lanka?’ and the doss...
SRI LANKA: Extrajudicial killings; violation of the right to life; impunity; dysfunction of criminal justice system ———————————–...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement issued by Justice Peace Human Development Human Rights Secretariat (SETIK) on the current situat...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the forced abduction of a man from Ranala, Sri Lanka in a notorious white van incident on 23 August 2006. The fami...
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